Mumford & Sons Map June Tour

Mega-selling British folk rockers will play their biggest U.S. shows to date.

Mumford & Sons’ late-April railroad tour of the Southwestern U.S. with Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros won’t be the only chance for fans to catch the hot-selling British folkies in 2011. The band will head out in June to play their biggest venues yet in America.

In addition to stops at Tennessee’s Bonnaroo festival and Arkansas’ Wakarusa, the quartet will play a number of large amphitheaters around the country before wrapping at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado.

Perhaps by then the band will have new tunes to play: Their train tour will be outfitted with mobile recording studios.

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